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mony in December, and begin again in April. . . . Formerly boys 

 were not allowed to smoke until they killed a coyote, meaning a 

 Navaho;'^ now they will smoke when they are 16 or so. In the pres- 

 ence of their parents thej" will not smoke imtil they are married. If a 

 boy at play saw a senior kinsman passing by, he would stop his play. 



Education proceeds, as ever in pueblo life, by imitation or imitative 

 play. Lucinda would tell me of the play at being grown up of two 

 little girls who greatly amused her. Now they would play at a woman 

 having a baby. The "midwife" would press the expectant mother 

 all over. "Stretch out your legs," she said to her. "Keep warm! 

 It is coming soon." And she pretended to send everybody out of 

 the room."' Again they played at mother and daughter. The 

 "mother" told the "daughter" to fetch water "and put it in the 

 usual place," to sweep the floor "so we can have everything all clean 

 and sit down to do our work." The work was to play at being gover- 

 nor. (Their father had served as governor.) Now one was a man 

 come to report to the governor trouble with his wife. "I will lock 

 her up for five days," said the governor. "No," said the "hus- 

 band," "let us keep it to ourselves. You whip her." 



Bo,ys and girls begin to attend the solstice ceremonies of their Com 

 group at about the age of 15. (I heard of a mature girl of 16 who 

 had not yet attended her ceremony.) Nobody, either young or old, 

 is forced to attend this ceremonial, for attendance nmst be voluntary 

 to be of value. There is no initiation of the youth into Corn group 

 or into moiety organization (as at Taos, for thus, as initiation into 

 moiety, was described by an Isletan the initiation of the Taos boys). 



Kinship 



List op Kinship Terms 



nkai, father (desc). 



tata, (voc). 



inke', mother (desc). 



nana, (voc). 



inue'i, son (desc and voc). 



impyuwe'i,'* daughter (desc and voc). 



inhirei, father's mother (desc). 



luru, (voc). 



inchi'i, motlier's mother (desc). 



chi'i, (voc). 



inte'i, grandfather (desc). 



tee', (voc). 



inmaku (nmaku) grandchild (desc). 



maku, (voc). 



■* Conipare Tewa. Parsons. 13; 1.50. 



" Despite the finecdote. at another time Lucinda oi>ined that girls were kept completely ignorant of the 

 nature of childbirth and of intercourse. 

 "* Before p, b, n becomes m. 



